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The opening session begins at
8:15 a.m., Wednesday, November 14.
IRS - NINA E. OLSON, NATIONAL TAXPAYER ADVOCATE
 Nina
E. Olson is the National Taxpayer Advocate and serves as an advocate for
taxpayers to the IRS and Congress. She leads the Taxpayer Advocate
Service, a nationwide organization of approximately 2,000 taxpayer
advocates who help U.S. taxpayers resolve problems and work with the IRS
to correct systemic and procedural problems. The National Taxpayer
Advocate is required by statute to submit two annual reports to
Congress. The first report identifies the objectives of the Office of
the Taxpayer Advocate. The second report includes a discussion of the
top 20 problems that taxpayers face in their dealings with the IRS and
makes administrative and legislative recommendations to protect taxpayer
rights and mitigate taxpayer problems. Nina’s work as the “voice of the
taxpayers” at the IRS has won national acclaim: In 2004, 2005, and 2006
Accounting Today magazine named her one of its Top 100 Most
Influential People in the accounting profession. In January 2005,
Money magazine named her one of the 12 “Class Acts of 2004.”
Nina is an attorney licensed in
Virginia and North Carolina. She was the founder and Executive Director
of The Community Tax Law Project, the first independent 501(c)(3) low
income taxpayer clinic in the United States. The Community Tax Law
Project provides free legal services to Virginia low income taxpayers in
federal, state, and local tax disputes.
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IRS - BRADY BENNETT,
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
SMALL BUSINESS
AND SELF-EMPLOYED DIVISION, IRS
Brady
Bennett is the Deputy Commissioner of the Small Business and
Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division of the Internal Revenue Service, which,
with approximately 29,000 employees, serves 45 million taxpayers.
SB/SE’s customer base is comprised of 7 million small businesses and
includes partnerships and corporations with assets of less than $10
million, 33 million self-employed and supplemental income earners, and
approximately 5 million other filers of employment, excise, estate,
gift, fiduciary and international tax returns. Along with the SB/SE
Commissioner, Brady oversees field and campus compliance operations with
examination and collection programs, fraud and Bank Secrecy Act
programs, activities regarding taxpayer burden reduction, research,
outreach and stakeholder liaison, government liaison, disclosure,
internal and external communications, as well as all human resource,
budget, and systems support.
Brady began his IRS career in 1978 as a Collection
Revenue Officer in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He served as a Collection
Group Manager in Omaha, Nebraska and Miami, Florida before being
selected as a Regional Analyst, Collection Division, in the then Midwest
Regional Office (Chicago). Brady advanced to Collection Branch Chief
then Chief, Collection Special Procedures in the South Texas District
(Austin). He was selected as the Assistant Chief, Collection Division
for the Georgia District (Atlanta) in 1992 before his appointment as the
Chief, Collection Division in the Southern California District (Laguna
Niguel). Subsequently, he was selected as the Acting Regional Chief,
Customer Service for the then Western Region (San Francisco). After
completing the IRS Executive Development Program in the Spring of 2000,
Brady served as the Project Director, Filing and Payment Compliance, and
subsequently as the Director, Strategy, Research and Performance
Management. In the fall of 2002, Brady advanced to Director, Strategy
and Finance. In October 2004, Brady was selected as the Director,
Collection within SB/SE. From there, Brady moved to his current position
in December, 2006.
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